Physics, magnets, mathematics, floating platform, tensegrity.
This table looks quite unstable, as if produced by witchcraft or other paranormal causes. Imagine the joy of analyzing all the forces involved in maintaining its relative rigidity. Source: https://t.co/5p2wtodZiP
Marine life photographer Igor Adameyko captured these planktonic larvae of starfish fully mature and ready to attach, before separating from the translucent larval pod [read more, source and more videos: https://t.co/45OJVwpQDi]
Attacus Atlas is one of the largest butterflies in the world and lives only for two weeks with one goal in their adult stage: lay eggs and defend them until they hatch while disguised as a snake
IMO the two most important transformations for performant code are Array of Structs to Struct of Arrays and Loop Fusion to Loop Fission. The 1st is essential for cache perf and the 2nd breaks data dependencies and often unlocks more optimizations that were not obvious before.
x became associated with unknown quantities because the printer was running out of letter and choose x over y and z 🤯
From the book “Here’s Looking at Euclid”
#math
What popping a balloon sounds like inside a nuclear power plants cooling tower. Matt Ballos and Kevin Peterson of WSDG tried in 2018 and this is the result [video: https://t.co/79S2ZYKgVD]
The Lucky Knot bridge in Changsha, China is a topologically fascinating structure. It's effectively three bridges woven into one and it has no beginning and no end [read more: https://t.co/uywNdJyngd]
This is Snake, as played algorithmically by an AI with Dynamic Hamiltonian Cycle Repair. The snake cannot be killed: it is just a matter of how fast it wins the game [source, full video and more: https://t.co/W0c0yBRuut]